Word: panic
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...selling and general October angst drive stocks down further. Don't abandon tech stocks, but don't be wed to them either. Slowing PC demand is a problem. Cheaper groups such as banks, utilities and energy--even after a recent run--may serve you better. Above all, don't panic, especially if others...
...have been worrying quietly about oil for months, but corporate earnings - related to oil, but which incorporate a larger set of worries - have been at center stage. But when rockets flew, this wasn't a solely economic headache. This had the whiff of war, spurring a particular kind of panic-selling analysts said they hadn't seen since Saddam stormed Kuwait...
...George W. Bush and his stupidity: Are his little mispronunciations ("subliminable") and touches of blank panic when the discussion gets complex to be compared to such immense Shakespearean stupidities as, say, the Watergate capers - the imbecile break-ins, the moronic dirty tricks, and, above all, wily Richard Nixon's weird refusal to destroy the tapes? Can W. measure up to the standard of the Gingrich Republicans, who seized the government with a Cromwellian vengeance in 1994 and then so idiotically overplayed their hand that Bill Clinton deftly recovered and sailed on through a second term? No. The Republicans since Ronald...
...just hate phoney people, and Margaret just seems to be phoney about everything. She always talks about high school and middle school and her babysitters, and how damaging her father was to her mind. On and on she goes. She says her growing-up was filled with bulimia, panic attacks, chronic fatigue and depression. I feel really bad for her, really, I mean it. I know how she feels to have things just depress you for no goddamn reason. But J.D. doesn't sound like that bad of a guy. Fights his own demons, of course, but he was never...
...eliminate some work rules and reduce overtime pay. The actors' unions recently set a record with the longest strike in Hollywood history, over pay for commercials. And already the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Writers Guild of America are causing panic by threatening strikes against networks and studios next year, primarily over residuals from cable (which has boomed in the last few years) and Internet outlets (which might boom some...